On my own map, I did each label by itself and added the ring around it on a separate layer so I could easily amend it if needed.Originally Posted by hohum
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Well here it is (I can't believe it has taken a whole month to do this). I will most likely redo the labels of the outside heraldry. I stubbornly stuck with my design even when it was clear it was going to be illegible. I believe I added in the suggestion of toning down the contrast on the text outer glow, but I'm not 100% sure any more. Any thoughts?
The small text that is on top of other things like hills (Hills of Desolation) are kinda hard to read. I'd recommend making a duplicate layer of your paper, and using the selection tools, select the text, grow it a few pixels, then delete the stuff outside. That way you have your text on top of paper instead of ink lines. Looks nice, though, man...the tree and mtn symbols really fit the colors.
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I'd also suggest keeping the 'Southern Wastelands' label horizontal. It looks a bit odd as it is as there's no reason it should be at an angle as it's not tracking a long thin object (like the mountain labels), and all the other labels in that class are horizontal. No biggie though.
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@Ascension: Since the text labels were grouped by theme I selected by color, grew 1px and then deleted the ink underneath. As I said earlier, I would probably keep text of different sizes separate to be able to massage things to the appropriate size. As for the brushes, they are almost all Gidde. The towns are from starraven. And the Heraldry bits are from Juggernaut.
@ravells: Changed the Southern wastes to horizontal. At first I thought I might argue, but in looking at it there really wasn't any reason to have it angled. So I changed it. Thanks for the input.
If it is up to standards I will submit it as a Finished Map. Then I can go about improving my Finished Map to post ratio.
I can read them much easier now, nice.
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Okay, I couldn't leave it alone. Rhumb lines and compass added. Too much?
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I don't think it's too much, I think the rhumb/compass look great. Thumbs up from me!
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Looks awesome, dude. There's nothing I'd change.
the lines work just fine. they add to the effect without distracting the eye at all.
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